Writers and artists struggle to stand tall in the face of personal attacks, especially when they have little support from publishers. Any deviation from that standard draws the most hateful bile imaginable. These fake fans have a stubborn belief that comics are about straight men, preferably white, and those are the only stories worth telling. Of course, this kind of hate isn’t about “purity”. Given that, the current line should appeal to the so-called “purists” who are spewing hate all over the internet. Bobbi’s first appearance in Astonishing Tales #6, way back in the early 70s, involved a complex storyline where she was a brilliant scientist working as a S.H.I.E.L.D. This is just a more open representation of her character. I’m not even sure they’ve read anything with Mockingbird in it, ever, because Bobbi Morse is and has always been a feminist. The people sending her hate mail have clearly not read Cain’s Mockingbird series. (If you didn’t get that, go pick up all 8 issues of the Cain run. The abuse has been growing since Mockingbird appeared on the cover of her eighth comic wearing a shirt that reads “Ask me about my feminist agenda”.Ĭain stuck it out until this morning, when she officially deleted her Twitter account. Marvel writer Chelsea Cain left Twitter today amid a storm of viciously hateful messages.
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